Tea cartridge



April 29, 1924. 1,491,952

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Application filed February 15, 1923. Serial No. 619,129.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS HIRSCHHORN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tea Cartridges, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in tea cartridges for percolating or extracting the flavor from tea-leaves or cof- V fee. The invention pertains more particularly tothat type of cartridges which is described in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,310,796, granted to Benjamin Hirschhorn on July 22, 1919.

In this patent a cartridge is described, comprising a bag of textile fabric, having its mouth drawn into folds, the mouth of the bag being closed by a metal strip, in the form of a ring, which engages and compresses the folds, there being also a suspending string provided which is attached to the said bag by said strip.

The main object of the present invention is to generally simplify the construction and cheapen the production of tea cartridges of the type mentioned.

lVith these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination. arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claim-and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and propor tion of the several parts and details of con struction within the'scope of the appended claim. without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a tea cartridge constructed in accordance with the present invention: Fig. 2 is an elevation of the mouth portion of the bag, on a larger scale: and Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a bag of open-mesh textile fabric, such as cotton, ofa size to contain sufiicient tealeaves or coffee for a single brewing; This bag may be produced in any suitable manner. The mouth of the bag is closed by drawing or gathering the same into folds and winding wire is attached a handle 13 0f cardboard or the like. The wire 11, with its handle, serves to facilitate the handling of the cartridge and also as a means for suspending the cartridge from the receptacle, such as a tea pot or a coffee pot, in which the extraction is to take place. In addition to these functions the wire serves as the bag closing means.

In brewing tea or coffee with the improved device, the cartridge is taken hold of by its handle 13 and lowered into a brewing receptacle, the free end of the wire and the handle being permitted to hang over the mouth of the receptacle, after which the cover of the receptacle is put in place. The

cover thus holds the outer end of the'wire and handle ready for further operation. Into the receptacle is poured a suitable quantity of boiling water, either before or after the insertion of the cartridge. \Vhen suflicient essence has been extracted from the tealeaves or coffee within the cartridge, the cover of the brewing receptacle is removed and the bag withdrawn by grasping its handle 13.

\Vhat I claim is A device for extracting essence from tealeaves or coffee, comprising a bag of textile fabric having itsmouth drawn into folds, a wire having one of its ends wound around the mouth portion of said bag compressing said folds so as to close the bag, and a handle attached to the other end of saidwire.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 7th day of February, A. D. 1923.

LOUIS HIRSOHHORN. 

